More geekery
Two more cool things about *nix that I discovered recently:
One.
If you start a command on a remote machine, and realize it won’t finish before you have to disconnect, but don’t want to lose your progress:
1. Press ctrl+z to suspend it
2. Type ‘bg’ to put it in the background
3. Type ‘disown -a’
Your process will continue when you log off.
Two.
Not as cool, but nice to know nonetheless:
Tar has a –checkpoint option that periodically prints status messages. So if you have a really big tar that you’re creating or extracting, you can get updates to make sure it’s still working.
tar –checkpoint -xf bigtar.tar
B returns in a week and a day. Hooray! (though I only have a week to convert a disaster into an apartment. if anyone finds a linux command for this, let me know asap)
June 15th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The command: -r,rosa,12,B will work.
It is linux for a dozen red roses (Latin), BIG ones. It doesn’t clean the apartment, but usually blinds the recipient to the mess/dirt/trash in the apartment, at least for a while. Long term-better get cleaning.